MASSACHUSETTS 



RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON MASSACHUSETTS 



(An Outline suitable for Massachusetts will be found with the article "Slate.") 



What very interesting phase of physical geography is illustrated by the outstand- 

 ing peaks of the Connecticut Valley? 



What does the name Waltham immediately suggest to you? 



Which city has the largest manufacturing industries? 



What is there especially interesting about the unit of local government in Mas- 

 sachusetts? 



What laws show the progressive character of the state? 



What is the "long arm" of Massachusetts? 



What articles that we wear every day are manufactured in larger quantities by 

 Massachusetts than by any other state? 



What part did Massachusetts play in the abolition movement? 



What was the Liberator? 



What effect would it have on the literary history of the country if Massachu- 

 setts and all its writers were blotted out? 



Why does Massachusetts no longer raise cereals? What characteristic of the 

 state determines one of its chief agricultural pursuits? 



What change did immigration make in the religious statistics? 



Who were the Federalists and what attitude did Massachusetts take toward 

 them? 



How many states have a larger number of good-sized towns? What has the in- 

 dustrial development of the state had to do with this? 



What significant fact in the industrial life of the state is indicated in the lines 



Boats and boats from the fishing banks 

 Come home to Gloucester town. 



Who was the first secretary of the state board of education, and why do other 

 states owe much to him? 



What was the Boston Tea Party? How did it happen that this state was the 

 leader in the opposition to England? 



If the United States as a whole had as many inhabitants to the square mile as 

 has Massachusetts, what would its population be? 



What is there interesting about the division of the inhabitants according to birth 

 and parentage? 



What distinction has this state with reference to education? 



How do its native-born inhabitants rank as regards illiteracy? 



What was there inconsistent about the attitude of the early inhabitants of the 

 colony toward religion? 



How many states have a smaller area than Massachusetts? How many have a 

 smaller population? How many have a greater density of population? 



How did an American humorist express his impression of the climate of New 

 England? 



What has been done within the last decade to bring Boston into closer touch 

 with ports to the south of it? 



What were the two colonies that grew up in Massachusetts called, and when 

 were they united? 



How could you tell, by looking at a map of Massachusetts which showed the 

 cities, where the falls in the rivers occur? 



